See 12 minutes of the new HTC M8 in this video [Update: video pulled]

Recent prototype of AT&T branded unit detailed on video

Update: The video has been pulled. We figured this would happen, and hope everyone got a good look. Insert sad trombone sounds right about here.

Looking for information about HTC's upcoming HTC One successor (no, it's not the "All New One")? Youtube user GadgetReviews has one total video published, but it just happens to be 12 minutes of hands-on love with the HTC M8.

From the looks of things, we're seeing a very recent prototype (from February 19) of the AT&T branded unit. It's not a final version, as the software information is "Protected" — we're guessing it's running Android 4.4.2 and HTC Sense 5.5 — but it seems mostly production ready from the design point of view.

The software itself seem very similar to the current HTC One, with some serious changes in the camera interface. The outside of the phone keeps the familiar HTC One look and feel, with the addition of an extra camera that the reviewer hasn't found a use for in his unit.

HTC hasn't given many official clues just yet, but it's a given that we'll see everything there is to see about the M8 next month in London and New York. In the meantime, be sure to watch this one in case it disappears down one of the tubes!

I'm trying to get use to having a non replaceable battery, but I just haven't been able to really get used to it (I have three batteries for my GS3 that I carry around inconspicuously on long days). I agree that the sd card will be a big help for media users and travelers.

It's a good thing that this is a special-needs kid showing this off.
I dare HTC to go after him or his family because one of their prototypes got into the hands of a special-needs child that just happened to make a really nice YouTube video when no one was looking.

Apparently, Jeff Gordon from HTC has already contacted him via twitter. According to Android Authority, they have a screen capture of a twitter conversation between him and Jeff Gordon. Doesn't sound good!

Neither the s5 or the new one is a massive update over there predecessor. If you have s4 or the one there's no real reason. Considering the mocking HTC were doing of the s5 I thought they would have had a massive update.

Nope, nothing at all, I expect incremental updates for a while now until big new technology arrives(what they who knows). I personally thought that after the mocking HTC marketing were doing of the s5 for being incremental update I thought the new one will be a huge update but turns out so far from the leaks they are just as incremental.

Ha? You call that substantial? The GS5 basically has a bigger screen, bigger battery, an ISOCELL 16MP camera with fast focusing tech (w/c is also a new tech), finger print scanner for faster and more secure way of unlocking the phone and PayPal payments, heart rate sensors, a better build quality than the glossy plastic from the S4. Water and dust resistance, a new and improved UI, better radios, wifi and LTE support.

Well glad you like it so much, it may be the last HTC phone you can buy. You know the Galaxy line isn't going anywhere. I don't care for either of these phones, but from what's listed above you'd have to be a troll to say the S5 doesn't have more going for it. HTC is just f*cking dumb at marketing. METAL?! Yay who gives a f*ck. I do, but you don't even see Apple marketing their wonderful build quality. What does it do for me? Apple, Sammy, and Google get it...

Other than 2 cameras nothing substantial..Samsung can't exactly call micros sd card a new feature if they have always had it and they already had a 5" screen again they can tout that as something new so it's not fair to say one is a major improvement. You could argue the s5 with its faster and higher mp camera(won't know which is better till actual release), water proof and dust risistance and finger print scanner is a bigger improvement than the one to the new one. But that's not what my original comment was about, it was merely saying if your a owner of the s4 or the old one then there's no must have reasons to upgrade unless you must have a water proof phone or improved camera etc.

Uh er, many would say the adding SD card support is a step backward, not forward....That would be those that ripped Samsung for continuing to support it and praising HTC for abandoning it with the One. Can think of a few editors/writers around here that would fall into that group.

Wrong!!!! Not backwards!!! The consumer should have the ability to add 32/64/ or even 128GB's if they CHOOSE to! They manufacturer shouldn't be taking that choice away from the consumer. That's the Apple business model, less choice.

Adding SD support is a good thing, truly gives us an additional choice with no downside. Since Android 4.x the "SD" used by the system is internal and cannot be mounted as a drive to another device. That solves whatever technical problems from previous versions that required and actual SD card to work but allowed users to rip it out of the system and mount it to a PC for transfers. Adding a slot does not undo or get in the way of that. If the user never adds a card, its no different than a Nexus or an iPhone. If the user does add a card it's just external storage which is a beneficial feature for some. There is no downside unless data gets lost from the hardware that should have been stored in the cloud instead. Personally I use it all the time for storing the movies and TV shows that I watch every day but don't need to keep forever. Video playback works a lot better when you're not streaming. I don't depend on the card to store my own content, my photos are there but they get backed up to Google where all my other personal data is stored.

I think the M7 was the perfect size. I would have loved to see the screen increase to 5" without any physical size increase but I guess if the ergonomics are as good on the M8 it doesn't matter to me. However, this will be the bigger I plan to go.

LMAO. Probably a carrier demo like a picture the other day from a T-mobile office. But this kind of stuff in public is maybe symptomatic of a shaky organization. Like the HTC guy on twitter getting into it a little with the kid.

Why does every single phone "review" from pro's and children like this one feel the need to flick flick flick flick flick all over the place shaking the phone around the entire time.
Film it in a stationary place, IN focus, and show me things and then EDIT.
Showing me the camera by filming another phones camera is useless...
The sound he played to compare was literally 1 second...
Terrible video.

Does this kid actually have a legit youtube channel? He asks us to comment, like, subscribe, but he never mentions the name of the channel. I just wanted to see if anyone actually watches his videos that don't leak his parent's phones.

This is simply a joke... Seriously... I see people "OK'ing" incremental improvements to this phone but not the GS5? Yeah... Friggin hypocrites. Most of these comments are just atrocious with the forgiving the same name and the same damn design for a new phone.

Boy oh boy are you correct. Some of them are getting warmed up and are sharpening their fangs as I write this. I look forward to watching every HTC article and thread be reduced to utter ruins by the same usual members of the S-cru.

Thing is mostly everyone expected the m8 to look strikingly similar to the One because the design stood out compared to other android phones, and let's not forget that it's one of the most beautiful.
Comparing it to the s5, people expected it to be a large leap in terms of design because the s4 basically looked like an s3 with smaller bezels last year. Have you seen the 3d concepts people made suggesting how the s5 would look like? The actual model looks way less dramatic compared to what people anticipated it to be. All that hype led to a disappointment. Also factor in how much money Samsung has compared to HTC.
Tldr
We expected Samsung to take a big design leap compared to HTC
posted from my VZW g2

I was happy to see the headphone jack on the bottom - perfect placement, I think.

Some have mentioned that it showed the M8 has an SDcard slot, but I missed that point in the video, and I refuse to watch it again. I would love to know about the battery size, and some detail on the camera function, but maybe some other HTC employee's teenage son or daughter will come to our aid. Worst case, we will all know everything on March 25th.

Absolutely genius on HTC . Now everybody is talking about it and are now willing and able to hold of on the S5 because they know what they are paying for. Yes for those who liked it, there doubts about the phone ceased! HTC for the win!

The S5 comes out after the One. If anything this just made the choice between the two easier. Many people were hoping they'd match the S5 with at least the fingerprints scanner but seeing as it won't have that (even though the One Max did) I can see more people going for the S5 now. I'm not included in those people as I want the premium feel more so than a fingerprint scanner but it would've been nice to have it included. Here's hoping HTC keeps its base model 32 GB with the SD card up to 128 GB.

Except give the phone even more height for a completely useless reason other than holding the logo, pretty disappointed with it tbh, I might be swayed when we finally see how much better the camera performs....maybe

Right, because there's absolutely no possibility that anything INSIDE the phone might need the extra space. And: even if they did need precious space on the inside-- for, y'know, like, "stuff"-- we all know that HTC has t.a.r.d.i.s technology just sitting around, and that they can make inside-space be wwaaaaayyyyyyy bigger than the outside.

- Better camera. While the video and the kid did nothing to show one of the bigger improvements on the M8 I think it will be better and I'm also intrigued on what we can do with that second back camera.

- SD slot. It's not a big thing for many, including me, but it's a nice thing to have the option to add more storage space.

Things that concern me about the M8:

- Physical size. I don't know if the increase in height is accounted for (I guess it is) nicely in width because the M7 feels to me like it is on the edge of felling too narrow at times.

- Bezels or borders at the edges. I like how the M7 feels very uniform across the screen and to the edges. The phone on the video seems to have rise edges like a case. It's not that I don't like them, but it is a concern if they get too much in the way.

- 3.5mm jack at the bottom. I can't think of one good reason to have it on the bottom when we use the phone in our pockets when traveling/wandering around. Perhaps they will release some accessories that connect to the it on a dock or something. I will have to carry it upside down in my jeans when listening to music with my headphones on the street.

- Headphone amplifier. The M7 has it and it's awesome if you have a pair of high end headphones. The difference in quality and power are notable over any other phone out there. Without the beats branding, I hope they still included a headphone amp on the M8 besides the one (I assume) for the speakers.

Bezels and borders... Really?... Can you make a video or something where a bezel inflicts your daily usage of a phone?

"Oh gosh, Margaret... I went to call our son Joseph and the Bezel keeps getting in the way. I keep missing the call button! Hold on I'll text him... I just gotta... Reach... Over.... This... Ugh! Dammit! Bezel! Okay! I got to the letter "J". Hold on tight, Margaret, I'm goin in for the letter "O""

Yeah looks like the screen is bigger 5 verse 4.7 since the buttons are in the screen that helps and looks like screen is longer. I do like the SD support now and the interface does look better Sense looks good as well plus it looks like the M8 is thinner as well. I would think the camera is better along with the front face camera as well plus the sound should be just as good. Either way looks like HTC is doing the same thing Samsung doing which is just cook cutting things with their flag ship devices just like Apple has always done with the Iphone 6,7 Samsung S5,S6 HTC One M8,M9 so forth. They just improve the hardware specs like CPU,Memory,Screen,Camera so forth. I think HTC has better designs as well plus I like it they don't load a bunch of their software on the device ahead of time like Samsung does with the new S5 8GB worth too me is way too much of wasted space.. Overall the S5 is a nice device as well but I always liked how HTC does things with their hardware.

Absolutely about the headphone amp. It must be able to detect the impedance of real headphone speakers vs. earbuds, because using earbuds I can get loud but not eardrum breaking. But with real headphones, wow, BIG sound. My EVO LTE has it too, I didn't realize it was the same as the HTC One until I tried both side-by-side. I understand it's way better than Samsung devices. I actually have headphone speakers in my motorcycle helmet and use it like that all the time. I'm betting the M8 has the 2.55V amplifier, that they can include it without Beats branding/software. If it doesn't I won't buy it. I can tell if I get my hands on one in a Sprint store.

Yeah HTC can not be happy about this if I'm not mistaken I think I read on here or another site about a month ago HTC got rid of one of their top developers due to he had a rep of leaking their info on devices out.

PR stunt I'm betting, but yeah. Pretty terrible. HTC should joke about it during the "big reveal" (lol). That's the best way to combat stuff like this, IMO. Maybe have the kid start the presentation as a humorous notion (depending on how widely and well-known the video is, that is).

Looking great and all , but they made it even longer than The (other) One. Now It's probably same in length as Note 3 ...
Size can be a deal breaker for many, so I hope they make a smaller One with the same hardware.

Its the 3rd straight generation that nothing substantially new has come forth, that's the problem that people are harping about. Especially its plastic design is what I think people are having a hard time swallowing compared to the premium designed of ooh w 5, htc one and Z1. They all compete in the same class so basic fundamentals need to be adhered. Think about the basic standards for the bmw 3 series, audi a4 and benz c class... They all compete with each other and consumers are looking for general basics when shopping for an performance luxury sedan, entry level of course...

I remembered when the first leaks came out and everyone and their grandmother was making noise about the huge bezel. Now that it seems the full phone has been leaked I've yet to hear the onslaught of comment about the bezel. Seems like 5" screen, slimmer design, SD slot, improved camera and sound quality seems to be enough to silence people. The basic foundation of the HTC One is present in the M8 but trust me after watch the video on another site with a direct comparison btw the two phones, the M8 is superior esp with that brush finish. HTC makes one of, if not the best flagship phones. If only they could transmit into higher sales volume. But after watching this video I'm very impressed. One of the things I wanna see it a 3000 amp battery or slight less. But I love what I'm seeing. Your turn icrap (I mean iPhone 6) :-)

For me, the design is pretty much the same on par with the One or a little worse. Waiting to see the silver one like the original ONE maybe those could make me change my mind.

What I really hate about the new ONE is the UI
Am I the only who hate the sense 6. I felt like it a downgrade from 5. The color and design are way to flashy. No class at all. Why the hell did they make it look like an iPhone5 UI!?

It looks a little too busy for me. The dual camera sensors, poorly rounded out body, psuedo-rectangular shape, and strange appeal make it a bit of a deal breaker. The HTC One was pretty much the best that HTC had ever offered for its time. Though there isn't that much to change at this point, maintaining a clean and polished look should be imperative for the company.

I've been thinking that I'd be disappointed if the headphone jack is on the bottom of the phone, especially since I'm used to it being on the top, but the more I think about it, the more I think this is the result of the phones natural position in the hand as it's slipped into a pants pocket. Certainly won't be a deal breaker for me!

I saw the video on PocketNow yesterday.. That kid sounded so dumb (yes, I know he's a kid) but from what I see/read he tried to play even dumber on Twitter when he was questioned and confronted about it (saying it was fake, etc.).. I'm seeing Tweets now from ppl telling him he needs to get off the internet lol..

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project
and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License. AndroidCentral is an independent site
that is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.